Today is the International Intersex Awareness Day
26/10/2010
http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/news/for_media/media_releases/today_is_the_international_intersex_awareness_dayILGA-Europe supports the initiative to mark 26 October as the International Intersex Awareness Day. The first ever public demonstration by intersex activists took place in Boston (USA), on 26 October 1996.
ILGA-Europe believes this day is a great opportunity to raise awareness on intersex issues, generate greater understanding and challenge the prevailing medical pathological approach to the bodies of intersex people. Across Europe, hundreds of babies who are born intersex or those children who are identified as intersex later in their lives, are being subjected to inhumane 'corrective gender surgical operations' in order to align them with the binary male or female sexes. Such intrusive and unnecessary surgeries have devastating effects on intersex people who very frequently report to be tormented mentally, sexually, physically and psychologically by such 'treatments'.
